DISORDERLY CONDUCT
Kent Police fired a Taser gun at 24-year-old man who reportedly marched toward an officer in a fighting stance during an incident at about 12:15 a.m. Sept. 6 in the 300 block of Railroad Avenue.
Police arrested the man for investigation of disorderly conduct and prohibited conduct on Metro Transit property, according to the police report.
A Metro bus driver called police to report he could not wake up a man asleep in the back of the bus. The driver told police he had picked the man up in Renton. The driver said the man had been asleep about 40 minutes.
An officer yelled about three times at the man to wake up before he nudged the man in the foot with his foot.
The man then stumbled off the bus and fell to the ground outside against a bush. The officer told the man he could not stay on the Metro property.
The man reportedly jumped up and marched toward the officer in a fighting stance. A second officer fired a Taser gun and the man fell to the ground after the dart hit him.
Officers later found out that the man was listed as a violent offender and is under the supervision of the Department of Corrections.
ASSAULT
Police arrested a 27-year-old man for investigation of fourth-degree assault and third-degree mischief after he reportedly pushed his 22-year-old girlfriend to the ground at about 8:15 p.m. Sept. 6 at a house in the 25800 block of 119th Place Southeast.
The man and his girlfriend had been staying for about a week at the house of the man’s mother, according to the police report.
The mother told officers that her son and his girlfriend were in a heated argument and that her son refused to give back a red bag that the girlfriend wanted. The man then allegedly pushed his girlfriend to the ground.
The mother left the house with the girlfriend to call 911. When they returned home, they found holes had been punched in a door and in a wall.
The boyfriend told police he had argued with his girlfriend about the bag, but denied pushing her.
THEFT
Two witnesses spotted a man running with three boxes of shoes under his arm at about 6:50 p.m. Sept. 6 from a store in the 400 block of Ramsay Way.
Police arrested a 46-year-old man for investigation of third-degree theft a short while later along Fourth Avenue, according to the police report. The witnesses identified the man as the same man they saw running from the store.
Officers found three boxes of new shoes near a dumpster at a shopping mall parking lot along Ramsay Way. The boxes still had tags from the store.
The shoes were valued at about $173.
LIQUOR OFFENSE
Police cited a 22-year-old man for investigation of having an open container of alcohol at the Metro Transit station at about 9:55 p.m. Sept. 5 in the 300 block of Railroad Avenue.
Bicycle patrol officers responded to a report of a group of men possibly smoking crack near the bus transit station, according to the police report.
When officers showed up, the group of men had left. But police found a man holding an open container of beer near one of the bus bays. The man apologized to police for drinking at the transit station.
The man poured out the beer on the ground and threw the can away. He told officers he had been cited before for drinking alcohol and spitting at the transit station.
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